Category: Spirituality
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Fasting and Traditions
Fasting and Traditions Part 14 Mark 2:18-22 There is a lot rolled into these next five verses of the second chapter of Mark. We may have to break it into two separate sections. Have you ever been hungry? Oh, sure we all have been when we skip a meal because life just got in the…
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Eating with Sinners
Mark: According To Part 13 Mark 2:13-17 Eating with Sinners Let’s take a moment to set a time line of events which we have seen over the last 57 or so verses. It is clear that not all the disciples were following Jesus, also the sermon on the mount had not yet taken place. It…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict, Living the Gospel in the Face of Judgement part 13b
Living the Gospel in the Face of Judgement Galatians 6:6-10) Verses 3-5 have raised the idea of judgment in terms of self-examination and bearing one’s load. Those themes surface again in verses 7 and 8. Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sews, that he will also reap,” Paul asserts…
Pastor Lester Bentley 